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Eyewitness Guide Naples, Pompeii & Amalfi Coast
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 240 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the region's attractions. Covering Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Amalfi coast, it focuses on culture, history and art. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL107, $20.00)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 2007 PAPER 288 PAGES
Hugely popular in Italy, this witty guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending Italian passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. An Italian journalist, Severgnini opens with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, taking the unwary reader firmly by the hand on a journey to Milan,Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. He hilariously points out Italian rituals and quirks from the highway to hotels, bedrooms, restaurants, the office and beach.
(ITL718, $12.95)
Italy, Monuments Past and Present
R.A. Staccioli
ARCHAEOLOGY 2003 FLEXI-BOUND 78 PAGES
Part of the popular Past and Presents series, this informative volume shows Italy's most important monuments as they look today and, via overlaid illustrations, as they were once upon a time. The book surveys the history and archeological highlights of Rome, Sicily and Pompeii.
(ITL455, $22.50)
Sorrento Peninsula & Amalfi Coast Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
MAP
A detailed road map of the Sorrento Peninsula and Amalfi Coast, including Pompeii, Nocera and Salerno, with an inset map of Capri at a scale of 1:35,000, showing hiking trails, tracks, historic buildings and attractions. With travel information on the reverse. Two Sides. 29x43 inches.
(ITL432, $10.95)
Campania Basilicata Map
Touring Club Italiano
A colorful, durable map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
(ITL116, $12.95)
Ischia/Capri Map
Instituto Geografico De Agostini
A map of both Capri and Ischia at a scale of 1:28,000.
(ITL500, $6.95)
Naples Map
Touring Club Italiano
A good locally published map of Naples.
(ITL280, $12.95)
Fodor's Naples' 25 Best
Michael Buttler
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket guide to Naples, this slim book includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on its highlights.
(ITL594, $11.95)
My Love for Naples
Anna Teresa Callen
FOOD
A celebration of Neapolitan traditions and cooking, featuring 16 color plates and 250 recipes covering both the obscure and familiar, including buffalo mozzeralla, pizza and minestrone.
(ITL869, $35.00)
Naples at Table
Arthur Schwartz
FOOD
A celebration of the food of Naples and Campania. Schwartz, host of "Foodtalk", covers not only the food (with over 100 recipes), but also the culture, history, and myths of the region.
(ITL146, $32.95)
Passion on the Vine, A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy
Sergio Esposito
FOOD
Esposito writes warmly of his many sojourns in his native land as a child, wine merchant and connoisseur in this celebratory memoir.
(ITL953, $14.95)
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy
Tommaso Astarita
HISTORY
Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century.
(ITL597, $22.95)
Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure
Joseph Jay Deiss
HISTORY
An artful and wonderfully written description of ancient Herculaneum.
(ITL41, $18.95)
Italy, A Short History
Harry Hearder
HISTORY
Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present.
(ITL56, $26.99)
Modern Naples, A Documentary History, 1799-1999
John Santore
HISTORY
A source book and history of Naples from its foundations to Bourbon Capital and unification.
(ITL351, $25.00)
Pompeii, Public and Private Life
Paul Zanker
Deborah Schneider
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A comprehensive guide to the architecture, people and culture of Pompeii, focusing on both grand public spaces and private villas. With 21 color illustrations and 55 halftones, including site plans, models, mosaics and sculpture.
(ITL114, $28.00)
Vesuvius A.D. 79
Giovanni Patricelli
Ernesto De Carolis
HISTORY
An illustrated account of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius drawing on science, report, literature and folklore.
(ITL568, $29.95)
Pompeii, The Living City
Alex Butterworth
Ray Laurence
ARCHAEOLOGY
A meticulous historical and archaeological reconstruction of the city of Pompeii, its people, culture and daily rituals both before and after 79 AD, the year of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
(ITL773, $29.95)
Greene on Capri, A Memoir
Shirley Hazzard
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This book is ultimately a memoir about the author's friendship with Graham Greene, but there's plenty of commentary of Capri's history and culture for those seeking a flavor of the place.
(ITL440, $15.00)
Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account of Italy and the Italians.
(ITL02, $15.00)
Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Norman Lewis
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A classic book by one of the 20th century's great travel writers. Naples '44 is funny and moving, and ultimately a meditation on war and the indomitable character of the Italian people.
(ITL603, $14.95)
Cosi Fan Tutti
Michael Dibdin
MYSTERY
Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series.
(ITL623, $13.95)
Pompeii, A Novel
Robert Harris
LITERATURE
A fast-paced historical novel set in Pompeii. A young engineer sets out to repair the Roman aqueducts and discovers the imminent eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Full of suspense and period detail.
(ITL560, $7.99)
Sailing to Capri
Elizabeth Adler
MYSTERY
Bestselling author Adler weaves a suspenseful tale of a cruise, where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder happens.
(ITL965, $13.95)
The House in Amalfi
Elizabeth Adler
MYSTERY
Adler, master of suspense and romance, deftly intertwines lush descriptions of place with fast-paced intrigue in this her 16th novel, set in Amalfi.
(ITL966, $6.99)
The Seven Sisters
Margaret Drabble
LITERATURE
A novel in diary form about an aging Englishwoman, Candida Wilton, who leaves rural life for gritty London when she divorces her husband. The second half of the book is about Candida's hilarious and emotional trip to Naples to see the city of Virgil's Aeneid.
(ITL572, $14.00)
The Volcano Lover, A Romance
Susan Sontag
LITERATURE
A steamy and evocative historical novel by social critic Sontag, set in 18th-century Naples. The sweeping story focuses on the British Ambassador to the King in Naples, his passionate and notorious love, and her infatuation with Lord Nelson.
(ITL143, $15.00)
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